"Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail."
"England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold."
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Source: Virginia Graham (1967). “Don't blame the mirror”
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